This week’s chapters begin Otto’s highlights of American history and the roots of its democratic and scientific traditions.Read more…
Science Book Club: The War on Science Ch 1-2
Is Otto trying to encourage broad scientific literacy and a deeper level of scientific discourse in US national politics, or is he rallying support for specific policies and positions?Read more…
Science Corner: Announcing a Summer Science Blog Book Club
I’m going to try something new: a book discussion group via blog.Read more…
Science in Review: Taxi Cab Science
I would like to see my science communication focus more on conversation and discussion, rather than just monologuing.Read more…
Science Corner: Artificial Intelligence Deploys Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
A little randomness turned out to be a boon to the groupRead more…
Science Corner: The Speed of Knowledge
Ideas are sticky; we hold onto them even in the face of revisions or contradictions.Read more…
Science Corner: The Demon (And the Angel?) in the Permafrost
We may need to come up with a more practical plan … because the permafrost is melting and ancient organisms may be coming back to life: not mammoths, but microbes.Read more…
Science Corner: The First SoCal Artisans
The publication of these results is thus a testament to [the researchers’] perseverance regardless of how the conclusions are ultimately judged.Read more…
Science in Review: Taking Science into the Streets
The walking [at the Pittsburgh March for Science] would also provide a good opportunity to reflect on science in the public sphere.Read more…
Science Corner: Universal Science Income
Paying for science is not always as exciting as the science itself, unless we’re using science to figure out how to pay for it.Read more…
Science Corner: Does Science Rule out Resurrections?
I don’t think understanding the mechanism by which God accomplishes his goals makes them any less miraculous.Read more…
Science Corner: Readers Who Read this Post also Read…
Thus in talking about this work…we may be inadvertently revealing additional facets of the communication challenges posed by our present political landscape.Read more…
Science in Review: The Evolving Healthcare Market
How do we provide the best possible healthcare for the most people and how do we pay for it?Read more…
Science Corner: A Rocket Race Everyone Wins
Measuring the return of investment in inspiration is challenging.Read more…
Science Corner: I-9, Two Forms of Identification, and Your Genome
We believe we could use our time and money so much more efficiently if we only knew from day one which people will be loyal friends, productive employees, or healthy patients.Read more…
Science Corner: Seeing is Remembering
[R]esearch suggests that ability [to track objects] is connected to our ability to form long-term memories.Read more…
Science Corner: Get Healthy Fast
This study is the latest result among many which show a range of health benefits from restricting calorie intake or fasting in some fashion.Read more…
Science in Review: Pleistocene Park
Bringing back the mammoth is part of a larger program of “de-extinction” to explore the possibility of bringing back various extinct species, at least some of which we humans are responsible for eliminating.Read more…
Science Corner: No Lefts Make a Right
UPS found a way to nearly eliminate left turns from their delivery routes and save millions of gallons of fuel in the process.Read more…
Science Corner: Math with a Flourish
[O]nce you’ve had a deep think about math and rewarded yourself by baking some pie, math can also help you figure out how to divide the pie up fairly.Read more…
Science Corner: Where Angels Fear to Tread
If science is the process of learning how nature works, what happens when we venture into territory nature apparently hasn’t explored yet?Read more…
Science in Review: The Linguistic Match Game
[W]e learn languages so easily because languages themselves have evolved to be easy to learn.Read more…
Science Corner: Health on the Range
In a week when national health care legislation is being substantially revised comes a report on health disparities between rural and urban Americans.Read more…
Science Corner: One Man’s CO2
We can turn this rising smoke into rising cookies.Read more…